From what I read about CIV4, it looks like you'd need 3 cities to have a cultural victory. This would make One City Challenge (OCC, which means you can only have one city in the game) + cultural victory impossible. What are the Firaxis's considerations to support OCC and other variants in CIV4?
Trading reputation is a very tricky (and obscure) concept in CIV3. For example, if you have an active per-turn trade with A, and B cut the trading route, change is that you'd ruin your reputation which cannot be recovered during the rest of the game. How is it going to change in CIV4?
if you want porn (who doesn't, really?).
I've tried several times downloading stuff I was interested in and no matter what I tried to download it eventually turned out to be porn (like Harry Potter).
So now I go to BT for other useful stuff and edonkey for porn. BT is just more organized.
The journalist was trying to make a point by listing Google CEO's personal information. The point is you can virtually find any sensitive personal information on the web. By anyone, not just journalists.
I say Kudos to the journalist, and Google acted like an asshole.
It reads like they are just approving reviews selectively, instead of actually changing the content of the reviews. There is a vast difference! The title is misleading.
But the next time someone says "OSS only copies from Microsoft", remind them of IE7.
Yeah, that's definitely wrong. OSS could also copy from other companies.:-)
[i]Non-compete clauses are quite common in many higher end tech jobs and have been upheld for the most part provided the terms of agreement are not unreasonable[/i]
Quite common, yes. Upheld, no. Unreasonable, yes.
For what it's worth, this lawsuit will fail. Forcing someone to be jobless is not reasonable by any account.
I don't understand the complexity. Maxthon can do it so well, why is it difficult to do in IE7? If it's because building sth on top of IE is easier than changing IE itself, then build something on top of IE and call that something IE.
I find what the blog said completely hard to comprehend.
I can't say firefox is more secure than IE. How do you measure it? Number of bugs reported? It depends on market share (the point of the article) and how long you've been on the market.
Yes there are a lot of security problems in IE, but let's face it: there are a lot of security problems anywhere and we'll just have to see when they COULD be compared in market share (and it's not just simple path: IE having 95% the market doesn't mean it only gets 95% of the hacker's attention. It might be close to 100%).
And one big problem I've seen is that both sides are spreading FUDs against the other. Yes it's right, I think there are a lot of FUDs about Microsoft too because many people think it's evil.
I personally keep all my passwords in an Excel spreadsheet and protect it with a master password. As you say there is nothing wrong with that.
Unfortunately, I end up still using the same set of passwords (about 5) anyway.:)
Wake up everyday and find this country is becoming more and more conservative and restrictive.
But what do we know? The "people" supposedly elected the right administration for them, so whether they joy and suffer is their own choice.
When I was in grad school I had exactly the same prjoect: writing a proposal to implement 911 on the Internet.
I think I wrote something like using multicast, but I am not sure I knew what I was writing.:)
Anyway, I believe the technology has to support 911 and there is no reason that it couldn't be solved. But the problem is the 120 day limit. I would expect at least 2 years for this thing to become a standard.
So what does it mean, no VoIP for the two years?
I downloaded it multiple times, and am still using Maxthon. It has two problems for me:
1. substantially high load. When browsing some sites it's constantly running at full CPU load.
2. unstable. Configuration dialogs freezes, bottons strangely grey out, etc.
Users like me are picky. So keep up the good work, and work harder.
I don't understand why it's evil for google to have to put some censorship required by the Chinese government.
Is filtering content itself evil? Hard to say. Is filtering porn evil? (which IS what Chinese government does)
Is entering Chinese market and cooperating with Chinese government evil? Wow, that's gone too far for me to comment.
So, what is evil, exactly?
Yes, it's just a new business model by which those companies can profit. And open source developers are just doing a paid job.
There is no ethical difference between "open source" and "proprietary" programmers.
I'd love to be open source developer too, as I'm paid the same and my work gains more visibility.:)
Google is no longer the old small startup company. It's becoming more and more aggressive and smells as dangerous as the other Software monster that wants to control every single piece of our life.
Not just because of technical reasons (it might reduce the latency but it incurs more traffic and load on the machine and the Internet), but I am starting to feel uncomfortable of how aggressive Google has been trying to be.
"Do no evil"? I hear the similar thing when Larry started to give away Bitkeeper to Open Source developers. Not that I say Larry is evil, but a company is a company. I cannot trust them without limits.
It's a common mistake that software engineers do not need to know hardware. Well maybe for some people it is, but my own experience shows that you'll be a much better software engineer if you know how hardware (and operating system) works.
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Well he said "without the fear of being arrested", not "without being arrested". :)
From what I read about CIV4, it looks like you'd need 3 cities to have a cultural victory. This would make One City Challenge (OCC, which means you can only have one city in the game) + cultural victory impossible. What are the Firaxis's considerations to support OCC and other variants in CIV4?
Trading reputation is a very tricky (and obscure) concept in CIV3. For example, if you have an active per-turn trade with A, and B cut the trading route, change is that you'd ruin your reputation which cannot be recovered during the rest of the game. How is it going to change in CIV4?
But wait a minute. How much does a Windows CD cost?
Looks like not everybody is happy with this article. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508 .3/1508.html
if you want porn (who doesn't, really?). I've tried several times downloading stuff I was interested in and no matter what I tried to download it eventually turned out to be porn (like Harry Potter). So now I go to BT for other useful stuff and edonkey for porn. BT is just more organized.
The journalist was trying to make a point by listing Google CEO's personal information. The point is you can virtually find any sensitive personal information on the web. By anyone, not just journalists. I say Kudos to the journalist, and Google acted like an asshole.
It reads like they are just approving reviews selectively, instead of actually changing the content of the reviews. There is a vast difference! The title is misleading.
But the next time someone says "OSS only copies from Microsoft", remind them of IE7. Yeah, that's definitely wrong. OSS could also copy from other companies. :-)
[i]Non-compete clauses are quite common in many higher end tech jobs and have been upheld for the most part provided the terms of agreement are not unreasonable[/i] Quite common, yes. Upheld, no. Unreasonable, yes. For what it's worth, this lawsuit will fail. Forcing someone to be jobless is not reasonable by any account.
I don't understand the complexity. Maxthon can do it so well, why is it difficult to do in IE7? If it's because building sth on top of IE is easier than changing IE itself, then build something on top of IE and call that something IE. I find what the blog said completely hard to comprehend.
I can't say firefox is more secure than IE. How do you measure it? Number of bugs reported? It depends on market share (the point of the article) and how long you've been on the market. Yes there are a lot of security problems in IE, but let's face it: there are a lot of security problems anywhere and we'll just have to see when they COULD be compared in market share (and it's not just simple path: IE having 95% the market doesn't mean it only gets 95% of the hacker's attention. It might be close to 100%). And one big problem I've seen is that both sides are spreading FUDs against the other. Yes it's right, I think there are a lot of FUDs about Microsoft too because many people think it's evil.
I'd no idea. I'd download it if it were free.
I personally keep all my passwords in an Excel spreadsheet and protect it with a master password. As you say there is nothing wrong with that. Unfortunately, I end up still using the same set of passwords (about 5) anyway. :)
Wake up everyday and find this country is becoming more and more conservative and restrictive. But what do we know? The "people" supposedly elected the right administration for them, so whether they joy and suffer is their own choice.
When I was in grad school I had exactly the same prjoect: writing a proposal to implement 911 on the Internet. I think I wrote something like using multicast, but I am not sure I knew what I was writing. :)
Anyway, I believe the technology has to support 911 and there is no reason that it couldn't be solved. But the problem is the 120 day limit. I would expect at least 2 years for this thing to become a standard.
So what does it mean, no VoIP for the two years?
either. Look at what happened to the IBM-Lenovo deal.
I downloaded it multiple times, and am still using Maxthon. It has two problems for me: 1. substantially high load. When browsing some sites it's constantly running at full CPU load. 2. unstable. Configuration dialogs freezes, bottons strangely grey out, etc. Users like me are picky. So keep up the good work, and work harder.
I don't understand why it's evil for google to have to put some censorship required by the Chinese government. Is filtering content itself evil? Hard to say. Is filtering porn evil? (which IS what Chinese government does) Is entering Chinese market and cooperating with Chinese government evil? Wow, that's gone too far for me to comment. So, what is evil, exactly?
Yes, it's just a new business model by which those companies can profit. And open source developers are just doing a paid job. There is no ethical difference between "open source" and "proprietary" programmers. I'd love to be open source developer too, as I'm paid the same and my work gains more visibility. :)
Google is no longer the old small startup company. It's becoming more and more aggressive and smells as dangerous as the other Software monster that wants to control every single piece of our life.
Not just because of technical reasons (it might reduce the latency but it incurs more traffic and load on the machine and the Internet), but I am starting to feel uncomfortable of how aggressive Google has been trying to be. "Do no evil"? I hear the similar thing when Larry started to give away Bitkeeper to Open Source developers. Not that I say Larry is evil, but a company is a company. I cannot trust them without limits.
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It's a common mistake that software engineers do not need to know hardware. Well maybe for some people it is, but my own experience shows that you'll be a much better software engineer if you know how hardware (and operating system) works.